Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents iii
3. List of tables, figures and photographs v
4. Acknowledgements vii
5. Notes on contributors viii
6. Introduction: gentrification, social mix/ing and mixed communities 1
7. Reflections on social mix policy
8. Why do birds of a feather flock together? Social mix and social welfare: a quantitative appraisal 17
9. Social mix and urban policy 25
10. Mixed communities and urban policy: reflections from the UK 35
11. Gentrification without social mixing in the rapidly urbanising world of Australasia 43
12. Social mix in liberal and neoliberal times
13. Social mixing and the historical geography of gentrification 53
14. Social mix and encounter capacity – a pragmatic social model for a new downtown: the example of HafenCity Hamburg 69
15. Social mix policies and gentrification
16. Mixed-income schools and housing policy in Chicago: a critical examination of the gentrification/education/‘racial’ exclusion nexus 95
17. Social mix as the aim of a controlled gentrification process: the example of the Goutte d’Or district in Paris 115
18. Beware the Trojan horse: social mix constructions in Melbourne 133
19. The rhetoric and reality of social mix policies
20. Social mixing as a cure for negative neighbourhood effects: evidence-based policy or urban myth? 151
21. Meanings, politics and realities of social mix and gentrification – a view from Brussels 169
22. ‘Regeneration’ in interesting times: a story of privatisation and gentrification in a peripheral Scottish city 185
23. HOPE VI: calling for modesty in its claims 209
24. Experiencing social mix
25. The impossibility of gentrification and social mixing 233
26. Not the only power in town? Challenging binaries and bringing the working class into gentrification research 251
27. From social mix to political marginalisation? The redevelopment of Toronto’s public housing and the dilution of tenant organisational power 273
28. Mixture without mating: partial gentrification in the case of Rotterdam, the Netherlands 299
29. Afterword 319
30. References 323
31. Index 365